Question

Is it possible to customize a string which return from a mysql database?
I have a field which is image name and i would like to join it with my directory path.

SELECT * FROM brand
//row return.
id    image_name
1    image1.jpg

//i would like to have my return like
id    image_name
1    upload/image1.jpg

Answer 1

What you’re looking for is concatenation. Refer to this for MySQL concat.

Basically, you could do

SELECT CONCAT('/path/to/dir/', filename) as `file_name`
FROM brand

which would return /path/to/dir/filename